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Mainstream narratives of the graphic novel's development identify the form's "approaching of age", its maturation from pulp infancy to literary adulthood. In Arresting Development, Christopher Pizzino questions these founded narratives, arguing that the medium's history of censorship and marginalization endures in the heads of its present-day visitors and, crucially, its writers. Comics and their authors remain burdened by the stigma of literary illegitimacy and the problems for status that proclaimed their earlier history. Many graphic novelists are intensely aware of both the medium's troubled past and their own tenuous status in contemporary culture. Arresting Development presents case studies of four key works - Frank Miller's Batman: The Deep Knight Comes back, Alison Bechdel's Fun Home, Charles Burns's Black colored Opening, and Gilbert Hernandez's Love and Rockets - exploring how their writers engage the challenge of comics' social status. Pizzino illuminates the separation of high and low culture, artwork and pulp, and advanced understanding and vulgar utilization as continual influences that determine the boundaries of books, the status of visitors, and the worthiness of the very act of reading. The booklet is posted by School of Tx Press.
